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Description:

1944
Peleliu
MS Marine walks along road, smoke ring in the sky
LS-PAN of desolate Peleliu landscape, Marines can just be seen walking R to L

00:20
1944/09/22 - 15:00
Peleliu - 1st and 7th Marines push up Peninsula
CU Marines moving carefully through dense undergrowth
MS Marines moving over rocky undergrowth
MS Marine operating camera
MS Marines R to L over rocky shrubland
MS Marine moves quickly through undergrowth
MS Marines loading up with grenades

00:59
1944/09/23 - 09:00
Peleliu - 1st and 7th Marines push up Peninsula
MS Marines fire multiple grenade rounds
MS Marine throws grenade over ridge
MS same
MS Marines climb up steep ridge
MS Marine firing machine gun through growth
CU Marine throws grenade
CU grenade launcher fires
MS group of Marines. one is holding flame as the other lights explosives and throws over ridge, others watch
MS same, same, same, same
photog: Spangler

02:13
1944/09/21
Peleliu - action at front
LS line of Marines walk on road past camera
MS makeshift hut with Marines around (Japanese?)
MS Japanese vehicle of some sort

02:43
1944/09/27 - 08:00
Peleliu - airport construction
Various MS and LS of bulldozers flattening and scooping ground to lay new runway
05:10
MS workers (Seabees?) queueing up for food and drink
MS back of truck with debris in it
LS-PAN workers eat and drink among airport bulldozers
LS planes take off and land on makeshift runway
LS plane is wheeled around runway
CU box of drink bottles left opened
LS construction continues on airport, trucksin FG, bulldozers work in far BG
MS bulldozer
LS construction continues on airport, trucks in FG, bulldozers work in far BG. trees in FG
CU bulldozer picks up stones and puts them in to back of truck
Men shower as a group in the rain
LS lots of Marines and workers mill about
photog: J.A Thompson